View the Ten Second Film Fest in high style at iLounge
Mona El Khafif and Marcella Del Signore's iLounge viewing platform
Viewers at this year's Ten Second Film Festival at The Soap Factory will get to watch the mini videos in high style: pink, fuzzy, and technologically responsive. Here is what the architect/designers of iLounge say about it:
Public social space is all around us and permanently changing. iLounge provides a social stage to create a temporary community for a minute, an hour, or an evening. The ambition of iLounge is to be an urban space that interacts with its inhabitants, adapting to the needs of the citizens but also stimulating them to look, listen, exchange, reflect, relax, and gain some- thing lasting from the experience. iLounge is instant, interim, and interactive, and predominately refers to “I” am.
Live-feed video cameras create a media echo of the spatial production. The media footage feeds into an incorporated pro jection station that will project the image of the interim social space onto surrounding urban surfaces and firewalls. The visi- tors are not passive spectators but dynamic participants in the production of art. iLounge is public furniture, but even more it is an interactive artifact of cultural production.
iLounge is a co-commission of Northern Spark and ZERO1 to be presented at Northern Spark 2012 in Minneapolis, MN, and the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose, CA and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
